Flora Stieglitz Straus
1919
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (Stieglitz window mat): 23.9 × 19.2 cm (9 7/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
mount: 55.8 × 45.3 cm (21 15/16 × 17 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.426
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Stieglitz Estate Number
39D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
609

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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 609.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 39 D
Wikidata ID
Q64034940
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Flora Stieglitz Straus was Alfred’s niece, the daughter of Leopold and Elizabeth Stieffel Stieglitz.
“The pictures of Flora—especially the large head—and Daddy—they are (especially Flora’s)—just a little bigger than they can know themselves—perhaps with moments here and there approaching themselves” (Elizabeth Davidson, daughter of Alfred’s brother Leopold, to Alfred Stieglitz, 3 October 1919 [YCAL]).